Madura Plains

Madura Station also known as Madura Plains is a pastoral lease and sheep station located about 700 kilometres (435 mi) east south east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is within the locality of Madura and the Eyre Highway runs along the boundary of the station.

The station occupies an area of approximately 7,082 square kilometres (2,734 sq mi) or 1.75 million acres – making it larger than the nation of Brunei – in the remote south east of Western Australia. It is the second largest sheep station in Australia, after Rawlinna and is currently owned by CC Cooper & Co.

In 1927, the extent of the Madura Station was reported as two million acres.

The station has a carrying capacity of 58,000 sheep, which are merinos raised for their wool. The company employed eight staff in 2012 working under the supervision of the station manager, Matt Haines.

The land is mostly gently undulating calcareous plains with eucalypt–melaleuca–myall woodlands and chenopod shrubland interspersed with saltbush shrubland and bindii grassland. Many caves can be found amongst the limestone bedrock of the Nullarbor Plain.

The traditional owners of the area are the Mirning people, whose territory stretched across the Nullarbor and into South Australia.

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